'Thanks' will always take you far!
This morning was another attempt at Hell Ride for me, my last attempt ending in a bitumen slide close to home, so it was time enough for another lunge. As per usual, our police motorcade assisted our endeavours along the road for the first little while, although I must mention that the particular driver was very curteous to us and didn't use his vehicle as a battering ram like usual. The police would basically escort any cars that wanted to get by us, which was good for everyone.
Rolling down to Olivers hill was a gentle sort of a run, sitting in with Dan Braunsteins, moaning how boring it was to just roll along. At 50kph... Regardless, as MTB riders we got a little sick of just sitting in so as usual we had a lunge over the top of Olivers and managed to get away, just Dan and myself. With the traffic light gods shining for once, we stayed away to MtEliza road, over the rolling hills with the bunch chasing away so that was fun. Dan smashed me over the larger hill, being 6th in the world helps a bit...!
All back together, we rolled back up the beach towards Melbs at 50-55pkh, so nice and smooth until we hit the traffic at Mordy. As is usual, it gets a bit furry from then on, but up the front, I get a bit impatient every so often, so we stirred it up from there home, and then after Black Rock we kept the pace up a tad to open up the legs for this afternoons play out in the You Yangs.
Dan was some good company out there today, but it would be nice to see some more MTB boys out there to play with. But I guess its the road, and we can't expect too much.
Something else I'd like to make mention. Whilst this isn't a blog for promoting other companies other than Felt, Night Lightning, GV RaceTech and Hutchinson, I would like to make a special thanks to Mavic who very generously came to the party this week to assist with Paul's' wheel which suffered a small mischief. They did a fantastic job for little to nothing, and it is with assistance like this that we can continue to race at the level we do.
So from Felt Racing, we would like to thank Mavic for their assistance, and encourage people to buy Mavic branded products, not in the least their wheels, but also their new cycle computer which won an award at Interbike for new products.
Rolling down to Olivers hill was a gentle sort of a run, sitting in with Dan Braunsteins, moaning how boring it was to just roll along. At 50kph... Regardless, as MTB riders we got a little sick of just sitting in so as usual we had a lunge over the top of Olivers and managed to get away, just Dan and myself. With the traffic light gods shining for once, we stayed away to MtEliza road, over the rolling hills with the bunch chasing away so that was fun. Dan smashed me over the larger hill, being 6th in the world helps a bit...!
All back together, we rolled back up the beach towards Melbs at 50-55pkh, so nice and smooth until we hit the traffic at Mordy. As is usual, it gets a bit furry from then on, but up the front, I get a bit impatient every so often, so we stirred it up from there home, and then after Black Rock we kept the pace up a tad to open up the legs for this afternoons play out in the You Yangs.
Dan was some good company out there today, but it would be nice to see some more MTB boys out there to play with. But I guess its the road, and we can't expect too much.
Something else I'd like to make mention. Whilst this isn't a blog for promoting other companies other than Felt, Night Lightning, GV RaceTech and Hutchinson, I would like to make a special thanks to Mavic who very generously came to the party this week to assist with Paul's' wheel which suffered a small mischief. They did a fantastic job for little to nothing, and it is with assistance like this that we can continue to race at the level we do.
So from Felt Racing, we would like to thank Mavic for their assistance, and encourage people to buy Mavic branded products, not in the least their wheels, but also their new cycle computer which won an award at Interbike for new products.
posted by Ash Thomas at 1:24 pm
2 Comments:
hmmm, hell ride - i tried that a few weeks back. was kinda put off when the dude ran the red light and killed the pedestrian. boy did i pick a good day for my first hell ride experience.
anyway, we'll see how it goes, if i ever wake up really early with nothing to do you may see me there.
good to hear mavic stepped up to the plate. from my experience it's not the norm. maybe it has something to do with paul being really fast, oh well, he deserves it. keep up the good work paul.
For info on the Black Rock Ride, aka Hell ride, try google.
Or Black Rock clock tower 7am saturdays.
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